The Late Prof. Tennant on Magic Mirrors

Oriental magic mirrors and the Laplacian image ”

We make some remarks on Berry's paper [Eur. Berry just presented a comprehensive explanation of the physical part for the optics of the magic mirror [1]. The story related to this strange metal mirror could be traced in [2-4]. The characteristic is : the raised images appeared in a screen are on the opposite side of an opaque mirror but not the reflecting face [5-6]! This amazing optical effect...

MEMORIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF LATE UNIV. – PROF. DR. KARL HEINZ RECHINGER

Karl Heinz Rechinger was born on October 16, 1906 at Vienna (Austria). He was the only son of Dr. Karl Rechinger and Rosa Elisabeth Rechinger née Favarger. His father was also a plant taxonomist. The principal focus of K.H. Rechinger was flora writing. He was the author of Flora Aegaea and founder and editor of "Flora Iranica". In 1929, Rechinger started to work as an unpaid volunteer in the De...

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Mirrors, mirrors on the wall…the ubiquitous multiple reflection error.

Participants decided when somebody, Janine, could see their face in a horizontal row of adjacent mirrors mounted flat on the same wall. They saw real mirrors and a shop-dummy representing Janine. Such coplanar mirrors reflect different, non-overlapping areas of a scene. However, almost everybody made an unexpected error: they claimed that Janine would see her face reflected in multiple mirrors ...

Multiple Views and Magic Mirrors - fMRI Visualization of the Human Brain

Multimodal visualization of functional and anatomical data of the human brain is an important field in medical volume visualization. The aim of this application is to provide the user with information on the location of functional activations in the different regions of the brain. When the approach of direct volume rendering is chosen, the visual impression of details usually suffers from accum...